Patient Engagement Manager

Marketing, Danish Affiliate

Ørestad, Denmark

Join our Marketing team as Patient Engagement Manager at the Danish affiliate based in Ørestad 

If you are enthusiastic about creating impact and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you Take the next step in your career and join the Danish affiliate in Novo Nordisk. This paternity cover assignment will run until 31 August 2026.

Your new role

As Patient Engagement Manager, you'll deliver patient-centred awareness and activation initiatives across private, public and patient channels. You'll drive creative, evidence-based approaches that challenge traditional engagement methods and introduce new solutions and channels with the overall objective to empower, activate and support people living with diabetes and obesity in Denmark. 

Your key responsibilities and deliveries will be to:

• Lead the engagement and channel strategy for , ensuring the site is a current, user-friendly, one-stop resource for people living with diabetes and their relatives
• Own digital content direction, user experience improvements, and performance measurement
• Plan and execute patient and public awareness campaigns in collaboration with internal teams and external partners
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with Medical, Marketing, Digital, Market Access to ensure integrated, compliant and locally relevant patient engagement activities
• In addition to diabetes, you will also support patient engagement deliverables related to obesity and other disease areas

Your new department

Novo Nordisk's Danish affiliate is based in Ørestad, Copenhagen, where you'll be part of our Marketing Team and join a team of very dedicated and passionate colleagues. The department's main responsibility is to create and execute the obesity and diabetes strategy and deliver it via all relevant customer channels. At Novo Nordisk, we are on a new and exciting journey with innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross-functionally, we are inventing new ways of communicating, measuring, and interacting with our customers and patients through digital channels and technologies.

Your skills & qualifications

• Master's degree preferred, ideally in Marketing, Communication or a related field
• Minimum 5 years' marketing experience, preferably in life sciences, FMCG or other highly regulated industries
• Experience managing websites, creating/overseeing content and developing social media campaigns
• Strong background in executing campaigns with local media, partners or influencers
• Experience from a communications or media agency is an advantage
• Direct-to-patient communication experience is an advantage
• Proficiency in Danish and English is required

On a personal level we are looking for someone who is proactive, driven and with an entrepreneurial mindset. You challenge status quo while focusing on finding solutions and opportunities. You are a team player and have a track-record of successful collaboration and influencing multidisciplinary internal and external stakeholders. You have excellent communication skills, and you always have the patient top of mind.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination and a constant curiosity. For over 100 years this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willing-ness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

What we offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Deadline

3 December 2025 (Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis).

Novo Nordisk is currently in the process of adjusting job titles globally. Please note that the job title listed in this advertisement may be subject to change. More detailed information will be provided during the recruitment process.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

We're not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.